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immediatism
[ ih-mee-dee-uh-tiz-uhm ]
/ ɪˈmi di əˌtɪz əm /
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noun U.S. History.
a policy for the immediate abolition of slavery.
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How to use immediatism in a sentence
Garrison, consequently rejected gradualism as a weapon, and took up instead the great and quickening doctrine of immediatism.
William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. GrimkeThese English abolitionists were coming to "immediatism" from 1824, and their influence told in America.
The Negro and the Nation|George S. MerriamTheir doctrine of immediatism—if we may invent a new term—is always one and the same, and always has been.
Abolition a Sedition|Geo. W. DonohueThey were all his, but there was another besides—immediatism.
William Lloyd Garrison|Archibald H. Grimke